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Chantal Hébert

Political Raconteur | Columnist

Chantal Hébert is a national affairs writer with The Toronto Star, a guest columnist for L’Actualité, and a weekly participant on the political panel At Issue on CBC TV’s The National. A prolific journalist who is passionate about Canadian politics―particularly in relation to Quebec―Hébert speaks with authority and passion on public policy and other matters of national importance.

Hébert began her media career in 1975 at the regional television and radio newsroom of the French language arm of the CBC, Radio-Canada. She eventually became their reporter covering provincial politics at Queen’s Park. After Radio-Canada appointed Hébert to cover federal politics on Parliament Hill, she worked as bureau chief for Le Devoir and La Presse, before moving on to her current roles. She is also a regular participant in a number of French-language television and radio current affairs programs and is a senior fellow at Massey College, University of Toronto.

Hébert was the 2005 recipient of APEX’s Public Service Citation as well as the 2006 recipient of the Hyman Solomon award for excellence in journalism and public policy. She is also a member of the Order of Canada.

Her first book, French Kiss: Stephen Harper’s Blind Date with Quebec, was published in 2007, and her most recent book, The Morning After: The 1995 Quebec Referendum And The Day That Almost Was, was published in 2014.

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The Morning After

Only the most fearless of political journalists would dare to open the old wounds of the 1995 Quebec referendum, a still-murky episode in Canadian history that continues to defy our understanding. The referendum brought one of the world’s most successful democracies to the brink of the unknown, and yet Quebecers’ attitudes toward sovereignty continue to baffle the country’s political class. Interviewing 17 key political leaders from the duelling referendum camps, Hébert and Lapierre begin with a simple premise: asking what were these political leaders’ plans if the vote had gone the other way. Even 2 decades later, their answers may shock you. And in asking an unexpected question, these veteran political observers cleverly expose the fractures, tensions and fears that continue to shape Canada today.

French Kiss

Chantal Hébert’s first book is both a post-mortem of the Canadian federation that died on January 23, 2006, the night of the federal election, as well as a brilliant examination of our changing political future. French Kiss examines how the Conservative Party’s relationship with Quebec has and will continue to shape and influence Canadian politics.

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